Tehran hopes U.S. would take its advice on Iraq
August 9, 2007 - 0:0
TEHRAN, Aug. 8 (MNA) -- Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel here on Wednesday expressed hope that the United States would be wise enough to take Iran’s advices on how to establish security in Iraq and to extricate from the morass that it is entangled in.
“Considering the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran knows the Iraqi people it will discuss its views with the Americans about strengthening security in Iraq and we hope that they would be wise and act based on Iran’s recommendations and save themselves from the Iraqi quagmire,” Haddad-Adel told a weekly news conference.So far the Iranian and U.S. ambassadors to Baghdad have held two rounds of talks on the Iraqi security situation. In their second meeting in July they agreed to set up a joint security committee to coordinate their efforts on how to establish security in the country. The committee held its first meeting on Monday.
He said the Iran-U.S. talks are a good opportunity for reducing the problems of the Iraqi people. “We accepted to negotiate with the U.S. side on the Iraq security based on our humanitarian and Islamic duty.”
He said from the beginning Iran believed that the attack on Iraq was wrong. “They moved into Iraq for oil, under the pretext of democracy.”
On a report that Russia has said it will not deliver fuel to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant unless Tehran clear up all ambiguities about its nuclear program, the speaker said “this is not a new statement.”
“We have always been committed to our obligations; however, our main problem with the agency is that it doesn’t act based on its duty.”
In a deal reached between Iran’s supreme National Security chief Ali Larijani and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei Tehran has agreed to clear up all remaining ambiguities about its nuclear activities.
So far the officials from IAEA and Iran have held two rounds of talks to draw up a modality plan to clear up the questions and they have made some progresses in this regard. The two sides are going to meet again on August 20 in Tehran.
Haddad-Adel went on to say that the Bushehr power plant would act as an example of Tehran-Moscow cooperation in the future and Iran has repeatedly asked Moscow to meet its commitments on completing the project.
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